Read Edit View history 而是 érshì HSK4 but rather Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 而是 érshì but rather conjunction rather; but rather 他不是在偷懒，而是在思考。 tā bù shì zài tōulǎn, érshì zài sīkǎo. He is not being lazy, but rather thinking. Frequency Movie subtitles 62.4 per million appears in 25% of films Written text 177.7 per million Details HSK 3.0 Level 4 Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
而是 érshì but rather conjunction rather; but rather 他不是在偷懒，而是在思考。 tā bù shì zài tōulǎn, érshì zài sīkǎo. He is not being lazy, but rather thinking. Frequency Movie subtitles 62.4 per million appears in 25% of films Written text 177.7 per million Details HSK 3.0 Level 4 Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)